SSH health checking with ldirectord

[Roberto Nibali]

Sal,

> Healthchecking ssh with ldirectord. Right now I have a port connection
> test going, which works, but it's not as thorough as I would like as it
> doesn't really test to make sure that ssh is responding, just that the
> port is up. Is there a health checker for ssh that will work with
> ldirectord? I haven't found one, and it doesn't seem to do it itself, at
> least based on the docs. 

Does the check_http (negotiate) health check not work for you? How does 
your ldirectord configuration look like?

> Also, the current 'check the port' checker spams the hell out of my logs
> with "Did not receive identification string" messages. Now, I know
> exactly why it's logging this, but it would be nice if I could turn off
> that warning for this host. Any ideas?

Well, it does not seem to be a message created/logged directly by 
ldirectord, but rather something like the identd. If you don't want this 
message, you have two options:

1. disable the service logging which does print those log data
2. configure your syslog daemon to filter out such log entries

Best regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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